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Modernizing America’s Electricity Infrastructure (MIT Press)

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A comprehensive, coherent strategy for modernizing The united states’s electricity infrastructure at the same time as ensuring affordable, reliable, safe, and environmentally sustainable electricity products and services.

America’s aging electricity infrastructure is deteriorating all of a sudden whilst the need for highly reliable electric service — driven by the explosion of digital technology — continues to rise. Largely missing from national discussions, then again, is a coherent, comprehensive national strategy for modernizing this critical infrastructure. Energy expert Mason Willrich presents just this type of strategy in this book, connecting the dots across electric utilities, independent suppliers, government bureaucracies, political jurisdictions, and academic disciplines. He explains the need for a coherent approach, offers a framework for analyzing policy options, and proposes a step by step strategy for modernizing electrical infrastructure, end-to-end, in a way that ensures the delivery of affordable, reliable, safe, and environmentally sustainable electricity products and services.

Willrich argues that an effective electrical infrastructure modernization strategy should incorporate flexibility, adaptability, and the capacity to coordinate policies at local, state, and federal levels. He reviews the history of The united states’s electrification, from Edison’s demonstration of the incandescent light bulb through the recent expansion of wind, solar, and energy efficiency as carbon-free energy resources. He describes the current ownership and operation of the electric industry and the complicated web of federal and state policies that govern it.

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